🇲🇽 Trucks ground to a halt at the Jeronimo–Santa Teresa border crossing in Mexico as protesters blocked the road in opposition to the new water law reform 💧 Since Monday, demonstrators have shut the main gate of the Ciudad Juarez Customs Office, parking vehicles across the road and setting up chairs beneath a banner reading 'Total Rejection of the New Water Law' ➡️ The new law aims to replace or significantly reform the existing National Water Law • Proponents say it would reorganize how water is managed nationally, formally recognize water as a human right and a ‘strategic national asset,’ and centralize oversight ➡️ Farmers and agricultural communities fear the new law could strip them of long-held water-well concessions • Under the proposed changes, water permits might not be inheritable or transferable, which many argue breaks a tradition of passing down rights across generations #mexico #waterlaw